Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-19
Sacramento.

ISpirit of the Times February 18TH
A newspaper is supposed to be the repre-
sentative of the community in the midst
of which it is published that is, if it re-
ceives sufficient patronage and support to
maintain itself and uphold its circulation.
paper is no better nor worse under such
circumstances than the community that
tolerates it, and therefore, as the Sacra-
mento Bee is upheld, maintained and sup
ported by the people of Sacramento, it be-
comes the absolute representative of those
people. No city III the State has needed
friends more than Sacramento. No peo-
pie in California have been more persist
ent and imperious in their demands from
other localities in the State for aid, sup
port and countenance, no people in the
State have had the disinterested advocacy
of true-hearted friends to greater extent
than the people Of Sacramento. Yet no
people in the State, under similar circum-
stances, have eyinced more black hearted
ingrstitude than the people of Sacramento,
in the fact that they indorse, palliate and
sanction every dirty and contemplate in
suit and sneer, every Misrepresentation
and libel every personal attack made
against their best friends by their own
newspaper organ. We hold the people of
Sacramento responsible for the brutal,
lying and unmannerly attacks that are con-
stantly being made in the Sacramento Bee
against those who have always been fore
most in good deeds in behalf of Sacra-
mento, and unlike their organ, without
money and without price :" and with many
of them forbearance has ceased to be a
virtue, and they will resent the lying black
guardism OF their organ, even if it becomes
necessary to make open and aboveboard
fights against the interests of Sacramento.
One OF two propositions in connection
with this matter is self-eyident either
Sacramento has reached position where
she considers herself so strong she can
turn back upon her old friends and advo-
Gates, or she is afraid of her newspaper
organ, and permits her friends TO be
villainously insulted because she is too
cowardly to protest. The newspaper in
question will claim that it has the right to
do as il pieases and SO it has and the peo-
pie will say they cannot control its conduct
or its utterances. We say it is false. The
whole remedy is in the hands of the peo-
pie who support the paper referred TO, and
in whose interest it is allowed to speak.
The writer of this has been the firm, un-
deviating, disinterested friend of Sacra-
mento personally since 1850, and as a
journalist for the last thirty y-five years, in
adversely and prosperity, in gloom and
happiness. He has stood by Sacramento,
and shared her dangers and vicissitudes in
her most trying times, and when many OF
her own people deserted her, and he did SO
out of pure regard and consideration for
the people and the place interested neUer
in single instance has he failed in his ad-
vocacy of the interests of Sacramento
when he knew what they were, and with
out waiting for any request so to do in con-
nection Herewith. But he is convinced by
the disgraceful lies and libels published on
him in the organ of the people of Sacra-
mento that he has outlived his usefulness
in that regard, and therefore the people OF
Sacramento must not feel surprised, if, in
the future, he pursues course entirely in
contradistinction to that which has here
tofore distinguished him personally, and
in his capacity as journalist. OF course
the detection of one man from the inter
ests of city as important and strong as
is Sacramento, matters little, but where
there are many such and increasing, it be-
comes a subject, we think, for considera.
ton on the part of the people interested.